Ships,
nets, gaff hooks, long-lines, fish traps and dredges
-- all the paraphernalia of commercial fishermen have always been part
of the tools of the fisheries' scientists. But researchers need more
than just the means of catching fish - water-bottles and CTD's, sonars,
helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, microscopes, spectrometers, and a
host of other modern equipment make up the tools of modern fisheries'
scientists. Learn how fisheries science has been done in the past and
how it has evolved to the present day….